User talk:Protozoan

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Amita Malik

Hi. Whilst I appreciate that this person may be notable, you can't simply construct an article by copy/pasting chunks of text from other websites. I've tagged the page properly as under construction - please rewrite the content so it doesn't violate Wikipedia's copyright policies. Thanks. CultureDrone (talk) 08:23, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

July 2009

Your recent addition to Amita Malik has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Abecedare (talk) 08:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have not added anything to this article since March 2009 Protozoan (talk) 11:07, 21 July 2009 (UTC) (copied from my talk page to keep discussion consolidated. Abecedare (talk) 16:13, 21 July 2009 (UTC))[reply]

Yes, I was referring to the March 6 edit in which you cut-and-pasted Outlook and dearcinema.com articles on wikipedia. I left a note to make sure that you realized that your subsequent edits on March 19 (made after CultureDrone's message) were not sufficient to resolve the issue. Please see WP:COPYVIO and WP:Plagiarism for the relevant wikipedia policies. Abecedare (talk) 16:11, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Those were works in progress. In any case I have not added to that article as I am only an occasional editor at Wiki. I am concerned though that you have entirely removed all the good and CONSTRUCTIVE work User:Kojozone had put into that article and for which I had thanked him/her. I feel that you should replace most of it. Protozoan (talk) 09:42, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Blatant copyright violation needs to be removed in toto, since simply copyediting the text and reformatting it in the preferred wikipedia format are not sufficient. So re-inserting that text is not an option, however if you wish to paraphrase the magazine articles in your own words the effort will be welcome.

I have your talkpage watchlisted for now; so if you wish you can reply here itself. That way the conversation is in one place and easier for any third party to follow now or later. Abecedare (talk) 10:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't plan to edit that article in the near future. Thanks Protozoan (talk) 10:14, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Calm down, guys. There's no need to assume such an aggressive tone. No one has to lecture anyone about Wikipedia guidelines. We can all check it for ourselves. Thank you.--Kojozone (talk) 13:21, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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